EIGHT HOURS’ RIOTING

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1932, Page 5

EIGHT HOURS’ RIOTING

IN ENGLISH TOWN Many Injured UNEMPLOYED OBJECT. TO RESTRICTION OF THE DOLE. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received September 19 at 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 18. Ten police and seventeen civilians were injured, while nine rioters were arrested, during week-end riots, that took place in the narrow streets of Birkenhead. The rioting culminated in the Chief Constable issuing an ultimatum forbidding the holding of processions and demonstrations. Thc rioters used bricks, stones, iron and bottles. Women flung irons from upper windows. Fourteen shops were looted. Hundreds of the police were rushed by ferries to Birkenhead from Liverpool. and these police now patrol the town. There are large crowds of unemployed in Birkenhead who are in an ugly moo I. The rioting began at nine o’clock on Saturday evening. It was continued without any abatement for eight hours until five o’clock on Sunday morning. Ihe trouble arose owing to unemployed feeling resentment at the “Aieans Test.” designed to add to their difficulties in the drawing of the dole. The Alayor of Birkenhead has made appeals to law-abiding citizens to dissociate themselves from the rioters and. to prevent the necessity of more oxi reme measures being taken.